Rethinking ERP

"Query.com is really making a leap on several fronts at once – technologies used, applications architecture, and a complete rethinking of human resource management that's focused on achieving business outcomes."

And yet if you look at the information systems that are in place running today's enterprises (or even some of the "on-demand" offerings from legacy vendors) you're looking back at 1992. Those ERP systems are built on huge code lines and complex relational schemas. You get one shot to change them (at initial implementation) and then the core sets like concrete. So even though business has changed over the past 15 years, business systems haven't - they can't. Current ERP solutions "embrace" change by adding on new functionality around that concrete foundation. The entire enterprise software industry has become focused on providing add-ons to the aging cores of the market leaders.